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Is Jetbrains going to remain relevant in the next 10 years?

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I spent probably a few months together trying geany, vim, eclipse, vscode...over my development career, as a matter of fact I spent yet another full working day with vim trying to get call graph and autocomplete working more smoothly, to no avail, I then tried Jetbrains at night(I have been using pycharm but barely used clion and webstorm), I quickly found all those features I need are already in JetBrains, and my one-day cost can buy a few years' license. Time is money.

I have ditched vscode two months ago(the setting-sycn lost all my settings and that's the last straw), now for me, vim will be restricted to server side editing or casual hacking, I will spend more time coding instead of building my IDE, I will just stick with Jetbrains, hope it will stay relevant for the next 10 years.

Recently I have been more invested in the Jetbrains ecosystem then ever before. Intellij has become a tool that is so full fledged it can replace almost all my other development tools. It can run and compile all things JVM. It is able to compile, refactor, and typecheck TypeScript. It can run my test suites. I can use it to browse any database tables, and the list goes on. At the same time I also see the popularity of Kotlin picking up, which will help Jetbrains push their IDE products in the future.

Regardless of the topic (IMO you could argue "will .NET remain relevant" just as easily, and comparing an 'editor in a chrome window' with an IDEA based IDE is just ridiculous), the basic grammatical errors made this painful to read even a paragraph.

> He didn’t say no, but his delay made me by it myself.

That "buy" appears in the sentence preceding this one is even more crazy.

> I kind of feel like they like me to :).

I assume this was meant to be "like me too".

This is one example but IntelliJ is still the bees knees for Java development. I tried vscode and after a day trying to install various plugins, I was still lacking in functionality that you take for granted in IntelliJ.

Maybe in a few more versions they will be comparable?

Besides, with every new release of Visual Studio, there’s a bit less need for Resharper.

Every time there is a new Visual Studio release I start without Resharper. Eventually there is something I need and I give in but it does seem to be getting much closer.

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